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Thoughts are with the Ukrainian people who have endured and endured and who deserve so much better than Trump and Vance.

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We’ve given a two week extension on submitting proposals for MIX 2025. Please join us for our convivial gathering of academics and practitioners, writers and artists, in the lovely city of Bath. Monday 25 Feb is the new deadline.

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@mixconference.bsky.social Call for papers closes on 10 February. Themes for this year’s discussions include: Issues of trust and truth in digital writing The use of generative AI tools by authors, poets and screenwriters Debates around AI and ethics. mixconference.org/calls/call-f...

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The deadline is soon! Get your proposals in for the 2025 @mixconference.bsky.social @bathspauni.bsky.social

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Reading Jayne Anne Phillips’ Night Watch. Compelling dense novel rendered more dense because this UK paperback edition has chunks of text missing from the bottom of every three or four pages. I’m reading it anyway, going with the bumpy flow but someone should do something? @littlebrown.bsky.social

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Reminder: 12 Feb - Ofcom lunchtime training session/Q&A for small, low-risk community websites. Some great questions in already - can't stress how important it is to send in Qs as all part of a useful evidence base. 139 ppl already signed up lu.ma/qijpvfnl

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Very excited to announce MIX 2025 in Bath, England in July - our call for papers and presentations is open

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This threatening tweet was deleted by Trump’s dumbest son 20 minutes after he posted it.

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Yes

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Fight Boat

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Interested in learning about how generative writing tools and artificial intelligence will impact creative writing? Join Writing with Technologies free webinar series: AI and Creative Expression, featuring talks from Janet Biggs and Nadim Sadek. www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/onl... #Webinar #AI

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Please join us for our own day symposium for writers engaged with digital - Wednesday 2 July in Bath. We’ve worked hard to keep the ticket price low for practitioners and freelancers:

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Today I'm amusing myself with the 1921 UK House of Lords debate (only men present of course) against an amendment that would have made lesbianism a crime. The amendment was roundly voted down thankfully, and the arguments are pretty amazing. Some highlights:

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Reading this from the PM, I think my assessment is right. This isn't so much a technology plan or a delivery strategy but a shop window for investment. on.ft.com/4gNko2L

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Applications for 2025 Illustrator in Residence now open at The RSL for twelve months to explore the relationship between literature and illustration. This is a paid residency of £5,000 from springtime 2025 until springtime 2026. Please share!

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Trudeau resigns.

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"Substack is, just as a reminder, a political project made by extremists with a goal of normalizing a radical, hateful agenda by co-opting well-intentioned creators' work in service of cross-promoting attacks on the vulnerable." Read this! Especially if you have a popular newsletter.

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My unpopular opinion is that the government is doing a lot. Most of it is good, some of it is very good, and some of it is not good at all. It has a narrative and a sense of moral purpose - to defeat populism through competence and service. It has an ideology, which is left technocrat.

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What better time than now for some nature inspiration: download Encounter www.encounter-nature.com, our guided nature journal that lives in your phone. Today a tip about ballooning spiders, yesterday a rather shocking story about hunting wrens. All ready for you to add your own observations too.

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Great thread here from @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social on how AI could be in useful service to encyclopaedias:

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Seagrass. One of my great loves. Wonderful to see this project.

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A friend told me that actor Chris Pines' full name is 'Christmas Pinecone', and I often think about this at Christmas and I really hope that it's true. It's just so wonderful. 😊🎄 #Christmas #Bluesky #ChrisPine

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Last day on Twitter / X for @wshed.bsky.social. Please support us in this conscious uncoupling by giving Watershed a follow and a boost - SO much of our business has come through that channel its a bit scary. www.watershed.co.uk/news/so-long...

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Africa is not Europe’s dumpster.

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The tsunami of AI authored ebooks, and AI narrated AI authored audiobooks, has arrived in libraries. Great post on Smart Bitches Trashy Books: smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2024/10/ai-a...

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We’re hosting MIX in Bath in July 2025! Join us:

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We want to hear from you! MIX 2025 are looking for 15-minute papers or presentations or 5-minute lightening talks from technologists, writers and researchers working in the digital realm. Deadline: 5pm Monday 10th February 2025. See mixconference.org for more details. #MIX2025 #CallForPapers #BSU

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This is a v interesting piece on UK govt's access to accurate statistics and it has a lot of bearing on govt's use of technology and its approach to policy making www.economist.com/britain/2024... a quick 🧵

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If you're a creative individual or organisation in Bath & North East Somerset, take a moment before 13 December to complete the Cultural Audit questionnaire, it's the first step towards a cultural strategy so do participate and share! www.cultural-audit.com @bathnovelaward.co.uk @theatrebath.co.uk

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Nova Scotia grey + red autumn day.

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Hospital waiting room turns out to be just as horrible in Canada as it is the UK. Stay tuned for further amazing cross-cultural insights.

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Great chance for six artists based in the North to receive financial support, mentoring, coaching, observational placements, peer-to-peer learning and access to the Factory International creative team. Deadline 9th December. Please share

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Why are Guardian and Observer journalists going on strike for four days in December over the deal to offload the Observer onto a failing digital startup? Five reasons here. Please repost 🙏

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It’s true. See below. Below the darkening line of my sea-bellowed three or four eyes.

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#RecipeOfTheDay is my Fear-Free Fish Stew! I often make the light but aromatic sauce ahead of time, which makes this even more relaxingly easy on the night itself. And said sauce could be the basis for so many stews. Notes in recipe intro for a vegetable version www.nigella.com/recipes/fear...

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Nova Scotia red mud big sky

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Hello my friends, old and new.

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On being a old-timey digital generalist and whether the cultural sector should be responsible for reclaiming the internet buttondown.com/oldinternetp.... My latest newsletter might appeal to other Old Internet People, I know there are a a few of you about...

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Oh my god I hate wrangling citations and references.

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